A companion to postcolonial studies / edited by Henry Schwarz and Sangeeta Ray.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schwarz, Henry, editor.

Ray, Sangeeta, editor.

Series:

Blackwell companions in cultural studies ; 2.

Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postcolonialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (632 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Malden, Massachusetts : Blackwell Publishing, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume examines the tumultuous changes that have occurred and are still occurring in the aftermath of European colonization of the globe from 1492 to 1947. Ranges widely over the major themes, regions, theories and practices of postcolonial study. Presents original essays by the leading proponents of postcolonial study in the Americas, Europe, India, Africa, East and West Asia Provides clear introductions to the major social and political movements underlying colonization and decolonization, accessible histories of the literature and culture, and separate regions affected by European colonization.

Contents:

List of Contributors

Foreword: Upon Reading the Companion to Postcolonial Studies

Acknowledgments

Mission Impossible: Introducing Postcolonial Studies in the US Academy

PART I: Historical and Theoretical Issues

Chapter 1: Imperialism, Colonialism, Postcolonialism

Chapter 2: Postcolonial Feminism/ Postcolonialism and Feminism

Chapter 3: Heterogeneity and Hybridity: Colonial Legacy, Postcolonial Heresy

Chapter 4: Postcolonialism and Postmodernism

Chapter 5: Postcolonial Studies in the House of US Multiculturalism

Chapter 6: Global Capital and Transnationalism

PART II: The Local and the Global

Chapter 7: A Vindication of Double Consciousness

Chapter 8: Human Understanding and (Latin) American Interests " The Politics and Sensibilities of Geohistorical Locations

Chapter 9: US Imperialism: Global Dominance without Colonies

Chapter 10: Indigenousness and Indigeneity

Chapter 11: Creolization, Orality and Nation Language in the Caribbean

Chapter 12: "Middle-class" Consciousness and Patriotic Literature in South Asia

Chapter 13: Africa: Varied Colonial Legacies

Chapter 14: The "Middle East"? Or .../ Arabic Literature and the Postcolonial Predicament

Chapter 15: King Kong in Hong Kong: Watching the "Handover" from the USA

Chapter 16: Japan and East Asia

Chapter 17: Intellectuals, Theosophy, and Failed Narratives of the Nation in Late Colonial Java

Chapter 18: Settler Colonies

Chapter 19: Ireland After History

Chapter 20: Global Disjunctures, Diasporic Differences, and the New World (Dis-)Order

Chapter 21: Home, Homo, Hybrid: Translating Gender

PART III: The Inventiveness of Theory

Chapter 22: Humanism in Question: Fanon and Said

Chapter 23: Spivak and Bhabha

Chapter 24: A Small History of Subaltern Studies

Chapter 25: Feminist Theory in Perspective

Chapter 26: Global Gay Formations and Local Homosexualities

PART IV: Cultural Studies and the Accommodation of Postcolonialism

Chapter 27: Rethinking English: Postcolonial English Studies

Chapter 28: Postcolonial Legality

Chapter 29: Race, Gender, Class, Postcolonialism: Toward a New Humanistic Paradigm?

Postscript: Popular Perceptions of Postcolonial Studies after 9/11

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-280-19859-1

1-4051-6550-2

1-4051-4293-6

OCLC:

61249197